Le Tumulte Noir
Le Tumulte Noir

Author: Jody Blake

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780271017532

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Jody Blake demonstrates in this book that although the impact of African-American music and dance in France was constant from 1900 to 1930, it was not unchanging. This was due in part to the stylistic development and diversity of African-American music and dance, from the prewar cakewalk and ragtime to the postwar Charleston and jazz. Successive groups of modernists, beginning with the Matisse and Picasso circle in the 1900s and concluding with the Surrealists and Purists in the 1920s, constructed different versions of la musique and la danse negre. Manifested in creative and critical works, these responses to African-American music and dance reflected the modernists' varying artistic agendas and historical climates.

Fashion and Modernity
Fashion and Modernity

Author: Christopher Breward

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13:

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What is the relationship between fashion and modernity, and how is this unique relationship manifested in the material world? This book considers how the relationship between fashion and modernity tests the very definition of modernity and enhances our understanding of the role of fashion in the modern world.

Cynicism and Postmodernity
Cynicism and Postmodernity

Author: Timothy Bewes

Publisher: Verso

Published: 1997-05-17

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9781859841969

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In this original and provocative book, Timothy Bewes descends into the modern cynical consciousness with a critical assessment of the preoccupations of contemporary society.

The Life of J.-K. Huysmans
The Life of J.-K. Huysmans

Author: Robert Baldick

Publisher: SCB Distributors

Published: 2020-04-29

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 1910213306

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Like Froude's biography of Carlyle, Holroyd's Shaw, and Ellmann's Joyce, Robert Baldick's Life of J.-K. Huysmans has become not just a standard reference work, to be consulted as regularly as the writing of the author whose life it chronicles, but a work of literature in its own right. First published fifty years ago, Baldick's classic biography presents a compelling narrative of Huysmans' life and work in all its various phases - from the Naturalism of the 1870s to the Decadence of the 1880s, and from the occult vogue of the 1890s to the Catholic Revival of the turn of the century - and it is written with such impeccable scholarship that it is still relied on today as regards matters of fact and detail. For this new edition - the first time the biography has been reprinted in English -Baldick's notes have been extensively revised and updated by Brendan King to take account of new developments and publications in the field of Huysmansian studies.

The Secret Paris of the 30's
The Secret Paris of the 30's

Author: Brassaï

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 9780500271087

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A collection of photographs with commentary, by the renowned artist Brassai, documenting the sordid world of Paris brothels, opium dens, underworld taverns, and other hidden places.

Fashioning the Bourgeoisie
Fashioning the Bourgeoisie

Author: Philippe Perrot

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780691000817

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By the middle of the century, men were prompted to disdain the decadent and gaudy colors of the pre-Revolutionary period and wear unrelievedly black frock coats suitable to the manly and serious world of commerce. Their wives and daughters, on the other hand, adorned themselves in bright colors and often uncomfortable and impractical laces and petticoats, to signal the status of their family.

Seeing Through Clothes
Seeing Through Clothes

Author: Anne Hollander

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1993-03-22

Total Pages: 538

ISBN-13: 9780520082311

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In this generously illustrated book, Anne Hollander examines the representation of the body and clothing in Western art, from Greek sculpture and vase painting through medieval and renaissance portraits, to contemporary films and fashion photography. First published ahead of its time, this book has become a classic.